Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

Thanks NeelD and JN

'idhu undhan veetu kiLi' is a good song

Pick #287

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow06/oorengum_v.rm

Song: oorengum kalyaana oorgolangaL
Film: vetri
Singers: VaniJairam, SNSurendar
lyrics: Vairamuthu
Music: Shankar Ganesh

One of my favorite annanthangai songs and a fav SNS song. Good lyrics and nice singing, esp by VJ.
The song was picturised on 2 annan thangais, Vijaykanth-??, YGMahendran-Mohana.
SNS voice is for VK and VJ's voice is for Mohana.
Vetri is a SAC's film and like many of his films it was filled with rape scenes, violence, courtrooms etc.

YGM's performance was outstanding. He played a softie and VM portrays his characterisation beautifully in the song.

The sister sings:
'pattu selai kattu
unnai vittu sellum neram
un kannin oram eeram
yaarini aadharam

un uLLam peN uLLam
pirivendraal thaangadhu'

Viji was VK's jodi. Her duet with VK is another good song from Vetri.
Cannot recall the first lines though

Ramki: many many rare songs are coming up. Great to hear the never-heard songs. VJ is very sweet in this song. SNS too sung well.

Shankar-Saleem-Simon film was dominated by Rajinikanth. It was pity to see that Vijayakumar tried his best to cope up on par with Rajini. But puli-poonai kadhai than.

SJ's sannamaana kural did not go well with karadu muradu MSV's. That too his hindi pronounciation is extremely bad. They sing for Manjula/Latha and VK/RK, kindaling JaiGanesh and MS.Vasanthi Poor selection). Did she act in Panchakalyani as heroine?

SN23 i thought radhidevi was panchakalyanis heroine?

Pick #288

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow06/paal_tk.rm

Song: paal pazhangaL
Film: then koodu
Singers: SJanaki, SPB
lyrics: Vairamuthu
Music: Ghantasala vijayakumar

'then koodu' was the only tamil film that had music by vijaykumar, son of veteran singer/MD Ghantasala. The film had some good songs.
Apart from todays pick, it had
'samaiyal enbadhoru thathuvam'(SPB),
'Muthu muthu pacharasi maakolamaam'(SJ).

The film did not do well and the songs were soon forgotten.
The film had a collage of stars including KRVijaya, Major, Suresh, Viji, shankarabaranam rajalakshmi, Robert(Rajsekar), Ponni, nizhaLgal Ravi, Nagesh etc. As the name implies the film talked about the joys of joint family.

Ramki,
thanks for this beautiful song. quality is not that good, but still the tune is very catchy. expecting more SJ and SPB rare gems from U.

Thanks again
Meera.

Ramki, you mean "Paapaathi" film heroine Radhidevi? Nope :-)

Your list of stars of ThEkoodu missed the second in the family Radharavi who paired with Sumithra. It was a good film with mild emotions but songs are not that good. SJ sounds bit tired in this song??

Thanks Meerakrishna. I will definitely try.

SN23 yes :)

Pick #289

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow06/oru_pt.rm

Song: oru naaL iravil
Film: paNathottam
Singer: PSuseela
lyrics: kaNNadasan
Music: Viswanathan Ramamurthy

Rare song? No.
Soulful?Yes
Melodious?Yes
Haunting, addictive, mesmerising?
Yes yes yes and several Yesses.

Some PS songs are difficult to get rid of your system, today's pick is one of the tops in that(my) list.

I had some guests over the weekend and we were discussing(arguing?) about singers in general. The only argument we all agreed to is songs by other singers can be easily(or with some practice) reproduced by other singers but not PS songs(read old songs). Her voice can be mimiced by no one. No one can give the magic touch that she renders to her songs. I have watched some of the music programs on television(rajageetham, ragamalika, swapthaswarangaL etc) and witnessed many PS songs unreproducable by some good singers. They struggle to bring the sweetness she did .

Ok enough of PS puranam :). Was this song for Sarojadevi?

Kannadasan has used some rare words in the song. Raj translates them for us here:

http://tfmpage.com/forum/6535.4098.12.13.57.html

Ramki

Dream song for saroja devi in PANNA THOTTAM.

"VARUVAN KANNAN" just close yur eyes and listen this particular line , ENNA ARUMAIYANA TUNE , Splendid rendition from PS.
I cannot explain the flow of music right from prelude. Thanks for uploading this song

ramesh